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89 relations: ActiveX, Address bar, AutoPlay, Breadcrumb (navigation), Cairo (operating system), CBS Interactive, CNET, COM Interop, COM Structured Storage, Common Language Runtime, Comparison of file managers, Component Object Model, CompuServe, Computer monitor, Computer virus, Control Panel (Windows), Desktop environment, Digital camera, Disk Cleanup, DVD-RAM, Exif, File Explorer, File manager, File Manager (Windows), File system, Filename extension, Graphical user interface, Icon (computing), Image Mastering API, Indexing Service, Interface (computing), Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 4, Java (programming language), List of alternative shells for Windows, List of Microsoft codenames, Lossy compression, Managed code, Metadata, Microsoft, Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows, Mobile phone, NoSQL, NTFS, Office Assistant, OpenSearch, ..., Operating system, Program Manager, Ribbon (computing), Sams Publishing, Shortcut (computing), Softpedia, Sophos, Span and div, Special folder, Start menu, Tabbles, Taskbar, Technological convergence, TechRepublic, Thumbnail, Tooltip, Tweak UI, Version control, Virtual folder, Windows 10, Windows 2000, Windows 3.x, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Desktop Update, Windows key, Windows ME, Windows Registry, Windows Search, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows shell, Windows Vista, Windows XP, WinFS, Zip (file format), .NET Framework. Expand index (39 more) »
ActiveX
ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web.
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Address bar
In a web browser, the address bar (also location bar or URL bar) is a graphical control element that shows the current URL.
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AutoPlay
AutoPlay, a feature introduced in Windows 98, examines newly discovered removable media and devices and, based on content such as pictures, music or video files, launches an appropriate application to play or display the content.
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Breadcrumb (navigation)
A breadcrumb or breadcrumb trail is a graphical control element frequently used as a navigational aid in user interfaces and on web pages.
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Cairo (operating system)
Cairo was the code name for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996.
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CBS Interactive
CBS Interactive Inc. (formerly CBS Digital Media Group) is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation.
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CNET
CNET (stylized as c|net) is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.
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COM Interop
COM Interop is a technology included in the.NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) that enables Component Object Model (COM) objects to interact with.NET objects, and vice versa.
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COM Structured Storage
COM Structured Storage (variously also known as COM structured storage or OLE structured storage) is a technology developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows operating system for storing hierarchical data within a single file.
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Common Language Runtime
The Common Language Runtime (CLR), the virtual machine component of Microsoft's.NET framework, manages the execution of.NET programs.
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Comparison of file managers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable file managers.
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Component Object Model
Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface standard for software components introduced by Microsoft in 1993.
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CompuServe
CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was the first major commercial online service provider in the United States.
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Computer monitor
A computer monitor is an output device which displays information in pictorial form.
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Computer virus
A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.
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Control Panel (Windows)
The Control Panel is a component of Microsoft Windows that provides the ability to view and change system settings.
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Desktop environment
In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system, which share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell.
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Digital camera
A digital camera or digicam is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.
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Disk Cleanup
Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space on a computer's hard drive.
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DVD-RAM
DVD-RAM (DVD Random Access Memory) is a disc specification presented in 1996 by the DVD Forum, which specifies rewritable DVD-RAM media and the appropriate DVD writers.
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Exif
Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras.
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File Explorer
File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards.
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File manager
A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders.
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File Manager (Windows)
File Manager is a file manager program bundled with releases of Microsoft Windows between 1990 and 1999 and available from 6 April 2018 as an optional download for all modern releases of Windows, including Windows 10.
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File system
In computing, a file system or filesystem controls how data is stored and retrieved.
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Filename extension
A filename extension is an identifier specified as a suffix to the name of a computer file.
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Graphical user interface
The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.
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Icon (computing)
In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system or mobile device.
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Image Mastering API
The Image Mastering Application Programming Interface, or IMAPI, is a component of Microsoft Windows operating system used for CD and DVD authoring and recording.
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Indexing Service
Indexing Service (originally called Index Server) was a Windows service that maintained an index of most of the files on a computer to improve searching performance on PCs and corporate computer networks.
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Interface (computing)
In computing, an interface is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information.
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Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.
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Internet Explorer 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 (IE4) is a graphical web browser that Microsoft released in October 1997, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for the classic Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX - Robert McMillan writing for SunWorld (November 5, 1997) - Help and Support page on Microsoft's website (August 17, 2005) and marketed as "The Web the Way You Want It".
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Java (programming language)
Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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List of alternative shells for Windows
This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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List of Microsoft codenames
Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development, before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves.
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Lossy compression
In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data encoding methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content.
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Managed code
Managed code is computer program code that requires and will execute only under the management of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine, typically the.NET Framework, or Mono.
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Metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data".
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
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Microsoft Bob
Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product that was released on March 11, 1995 and discontinued in early 1996.
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Microsoft Developer Network
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is the portion of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing on the various OS platforms or using the API or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications.
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Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12) is a version of Microsoft Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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Mobile phone
A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.
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NoSQL
A NoSQL (originally referring to "non SQL" or "non relational") database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases.
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NTFS
NTFS (New Technology File System) is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft.
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Office Assistant
The Office Assistant was an intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content.
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OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.
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Program Manager
Program Manager is the shell of Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x operating systems.
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Ribbon (computing)
In computer interface design, a ribbon is a graphical control element in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs.
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Sams Publishing
Sams Publishing is dedicated to the publishing of technical training manuals and is an imprint of Pearson plc, the global publishing and education company.
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Shortcut (computing)
In computing, a file shortcut is a handle in a user interface that allows the user to find a file or resource located in a different directory or folder from the place where the shortcut is located.
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Softpedia
Softpedia is a website from Romania that indexes information and provides primarily software information and downloads.
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Sophos
Sophos Group plc is an English security software and hardware company.
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Span and div
In HTML, span and div elements are used to define parts of a document so that they are identifiable when a unique classification is necessary.
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Special folder
On Microsoft Windows, a special folder is a folder which is presented to the user through an interface as an abstract concept instead of an absolute folder path.
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Start menu
The Start menu is a user interface element used in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95 and in some other operating systems.
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Tabbles
Tabbles is a relational file manager, running on Windows systems.
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Taskbar
A taskbar is an element of a graphical user interface which has various purposes.
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Technological convergence
This article describe science and technology convergence, with illustrations to convergence of emerging technologies (NBIC, nano-, bio-, info- and cognitive technologies) and convergence of media technology.
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TechRepublic
TechRepublic is an online trade publication and social community for IT professionals, with advice on best practices and tools for the day-to-day needs of IT decision-makers.
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Thumbnail
Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
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Tooltip
The tooltip or infotip or a hint is a common graphical user interface element.
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Tweak UI
Microsoft Tweak UI is a free application, released in 1996 by Microsoft for customizing the Microsoft Windows operating system's user interface.
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Version control
A component of software configuration management, version control, also known as revision control or source control, is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, large web sites, and other collections of information.
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Virtual folder
In computing, a virtual folder generally denotes an organizing principle for files that is not dependent on location in a hierarchical directory tree.
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Windows 10
Windows 10 (codenamed Redstone, formerly Threshold) is a personal computer operating system developed and released by Microsoft, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.
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Windows 2000
Windows 2000 (codenamed NT 5.0) is an operating system for use on both client and server computers.
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Windows 3.x
Windows 3.x means either of, or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows.
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Windows 8
Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.
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Windows 95
Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft.
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Windows 98
Windows 98 (codenamed Memphis while in development) is a graphical operating system by Microsoft.
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Windows Desktop Update
Microsoft's Windows Desktop Update was an optional feature included with Internet Explorer 4 (IE, released in September 1997), which introduced several updated shell features to the Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems.
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Windows key
The Windows logo key (also known as Windows key, start key, logo key, flag key, super key, command key or flag) is a keyboard key which was originally introduced on the Microsoft Natural keyboard in 1994.
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Windows ME
Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows ME (marketed with the pronunciation of the pronoun "me", commonly pronounced as an initialism, "M-E (Codenamed Millennium)", is a graphical operating system from Microsoft released to manufacturing in June 2000, and launched in September 2000.
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Windows Registry
The registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry.
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Windows Search
Windows Search, formerly known as Windows Desktop Search (WDS) on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, is an indexed desktop search platform created by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows.
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Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft and released on April 24, 2003.
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Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 is the second major release of the Windows Server family of operating systems for server computers.
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Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012, codenamed "Windows Server 8", is the sixth release of Windows Server.
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Windows shell
The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Windows Vista
Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) is an operating system by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs and media center PCs.
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Windows XP
Windows XP (codenamed Whistler) is a personal computer operating system that was produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.
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WinFS
WinFS (short for Windows Future Storage) was the code name for a canceled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, developed by Microsoft and first demonstrated in 2003 as an advanced storage subsystem for the Microsoft Windows operating system, designed for persistence and management of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
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Zip (file format)
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.
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.NET Framework
.NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Explorer
